Sun restructures, lays off up to 6,000 — Sun Microsystems has announced a restructuring that will involve layoffs of 15 percent to 18 percent of its global workforce. — The company also announced a reorganization of its software operations and the departure of Rich Green, executive vice president of software.

Introducing the Microsoft Store US — We previously launched Microso ft Store internationally in the UK, Germany and Korea. I'm now happy to announce that we have officially launched Microsoft Store for the U.S! — With this launch, our customers in the U.S. are able to buy …

European debut for ‘$100 laptop’ — Europeans will soon be able to buy their own XO laptop. — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November. — The machines will be sold under the Give One …

GirlInYourShirt: $75 Buys Your Startup Marketing For A Day — I imagine more than a few startups will take Jenaé up on her offer to wear your startup shirt and talk about your company for a day. It's $75, and she posts videos on her site, YouTube, Seesmic and Viddler, posts pictures on Flickr and tweets about it all as well.

Xbox 360, Wii Sales Climb in October, Fable 2 Leads — The games industry grew another 18 points year-over-year in the opening beats of the critical fourth quarter, according to NPD. Nothing's recession-proof, but the games industry seems to be weathering Wall Street's slings and arrows with a durable Kevlar-grade coating.

Engineering: Suddenly Sexy for College Grads — As the financial crisis deepens, science and math grads who once flocked to investment banking are now considering jobs in engineering — Early in his college career, Tyler Bosmeny assumed that after graduating, he would do what hundreds …

Is the VC Model Broken? Far From it — Update: Adeo Ressi, the serial entrepreneur behind the venture-capital rating site TheFunded, has been getting a lot of attention for a presentation he gave at Harvard Business School in which he argued that the VC industry is “broken.”

Businesses warming up to the iPhone — Businesses are gradually getting used to the idea of using iPhones in the enterprise, but Apple has a long way to go. — (Credit: Apple) — Home - News - Apple — Apple — November 14, 2008 4:00 AM PST — Businesses warming up to the iPhone

Universal Music Group: We're Still Selling Tunes, Amazingly — Universal Music Group, the world's biggest music company, insists the music business isn't dying. Yesterday, it released numbers to help bolster its case. — UMG saw sales drop 6.2 percent in the last quarter, parent company Vivendi disclosed yesterday.

Google Finally Starts Firing Slackers? — “It used to be nearly impossible to get fired for general underperformance” at Google, a reader tells us. But times have changed. Read > — What The Heck Happened To The Site? — Henry Blodget | Nov. 13, 5:16 PM | 12

Google's Consumers Are Checking Out — Google's business model is revealing its Achilles' heel. — The Internet giant's big perceived advantage over traditional media has long been its consumer-driven business model. Whereas traditional media has more of a marketer-driven approach …

The Coming Wireless Revolution — Gadgets that operate over television frequencies promise to transform the wireless landscape. — If you believe some radio researchers and engineers, within the next couple of years, high-bandwidth, far-reaching wireless Internet signals will soon blanket the nation.

Entrepreneurs Ask VCs for Cash Back — This week's $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway Inc. was the largest web-related venture capital investment since the bubble days at the turn of the millennium. But it also contained a provision that signals how the lack …

Lawmaker Plans Bill on Web Neutrality — A renewed battle over network neutrality could be on the horizon, as a senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers from blocking Web content. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans …